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- GLC#
- GLC02382.120-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 6 December 1883
- Author/Creator
- McLane, Robert M., 1815-1898
- Title
- to William Whann MacKall
- Place Written
- Baltimore, Maryland
- Pagination
- 1 p. : envelope Height: 26.4 cm, Width: 20.2 cm
- Primary time period
- Rise of Industrial America, 1877-1900
- Sub-Era
- The Gilded Age
McLane discusses assisting Henry Jackson Hunt. Possibly referring to a bill Hunt attempted to pass regarding military retirement pay, remarks "I will help Hunt all I can when the committees are organized I will see the chairman of the Military Committee and ascertain [how?] & where I can do the work... " McLane served as a United States Representative from Maryland 1847-1850 and 1879-1883, and Governor of Maryland 1883-1885. General Mackall served as chief-of-staff under Generals Braxton Bragg and Joseph E. Johnston, among other posts. Written on McLane's law office stationery.
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